Rep. Hunter Warns Of "Military Takeover" By LGBT Americans

October 14, 2011 4:58 pm ET
- by Matt Finkelstein

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) is one of the most reliably
homophobic members of the House, especially when it comes to allowing gay and
lesbian soldiers in the military. Before the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell,"
Hunter, a former marine, warned that the
inclusion of "hermaphrodites" would break the "special bond" among the
troops. More recently, Hunter has been pushing legislation
that would make sure members of the Armed Forces are "not pressured to approve of another personal's sexual conduct if that
sexual conduct is contrary to the personal principles of the member."

Today, Hunter may have set a new low for outlandish claims
about equality in the military. In a radio interview with Family Research
Council president Tony
Perkins, Hunter warned that "equal status" will not satisfy the "homosexual
lobby" whose true goal is "a military
takeover by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community."

PERKINS: Let's talk about this issue here, "Don't Ask Don't Tell," we knew a lot of this was going to happen, you've been pressing this issue from
the very beginning. But just, I mean, days after this is signed into law, first
we had the transvestites wanting to be allowed to come into the military, but
now we have chaplains being ordered, or at least given the permission and of
course we know what that means it means they'll be pressured, to do same-sex
weddings on military bases. Are they moving faster than you thought they would?

HUNTER: No, in fact this is exactly what we knew would happen.
We're not especially clairvoyant, we can't see into the future, but the
homosexual lobby isn't simply pressing to have equal status in the military
with people that are heterosexual. They would like a military takeover by the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community, and that's what they're going to
keep pushing for until it happens.

Listen:

Hunter also
suggested that the Navy was particularly supportive of repealing DADT
because "they don't have anybody really that are in this fight that we've had
in Iraq and Afghanistan directly" and "they were trying to become accepted" by
the Obama administration.